On 2004年12月29日 10:44:02 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >Third: I tried removing an the .exe-extension from a file by issuing: > >$ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb >> $ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb. Actually, this does not work (cygwin1.dll 1.5.12(0.116/4/2)), with the same error as without the extra dot, but the following does work: $ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe another-name $ mv another-name tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb no extra dot needed. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/